This aircraft was delivered on 5 Nov 1954 as a B-57B. It was later converted to EB-57B, an electronic warfare version that was unofficially nicknamed the "Night Intruder". It retired from service on 3 Dec 1981, and came to Dyess AFB for display two years later. This Canberra's true identity is ex USAF 52-1504, and it was initially displayed as such. But in 2022 it was falsely painted as "52-1534", an aircraft that crashed near Laredo, TX on 29 Nov 1955.

The photo was taken at RAAF East Sale in late 1961 or early 1962. It had a number of deployments in the early 1960s to RAAF Base East Sale with other B-57Bs as part of the USAF Crowflight deployments. The aircraft had the designation NB-57B painted, on the forward left fuselage just forward of the cockpit. Early 1962 it was back at East Sale in the same role of medium-level air sampling the filters were located in the special wingtip pods. Joe Baugher's page indicates this aircraft was written 14th January 1980.